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Re: New Poll
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lugnet.publish
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:15:31 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Frank Filz writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > I resized my window wider so I could see the bars, and it increased the • Google
> > number from 10 to 11. I think it was 9 before that. OK, I just resized the
> > window again, and the Google number changed from 11 to 12. I'm not doing
> > anything weird here -- just resizing the window. For some reason my browser
> > appears to be re-fetching the page from the webserver rather than from its
> > local cache.
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> Yea, I noticed Netscape at least does this. I think MSIE does also. It's
> pretty stupid. Sure, you may have to re-interpret the HTML to do the
> resize, but there is no good reason to do a re-load. It makes some web
> sites incredibly painful, get to the site, wait for it to download,
> realize the window needs to be bigger, re-size, then wait again while it
> re-downloads.
Yes, Netscape does think resize == reload which is stupid. However,
that is not what the problem was here. Hitting reload does not normally
register additional votes. Todd stopped accepting cookies
at just the right time and that defeated the protections against accidential
ballot stuffing.
So now I'm going to have to take the time to write additional protections
to discourage most intentional ballot stuffing. That's work I diddn't think
I had to do for the "friendliest place on the Internet".
Bah.
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| (...) OTOH, what I tried out was probably not something that most people would figure to give a try, so it may not end up being a real issue. If you ask people not to vote more than once (like explicitly state that, and make that a condition of (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: New Poll
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| (...) Yea, I noticed Netscape at least does this. I think MSIE does also. It's pretty stupid. Sure, you may have to re-interpret the HTML to do the resize, but there is no good reason to do a re-load. It makes some web sites incredibly painful, get (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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